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Research Interests

Green lacewings songs of the European carnea group

My general interests are in mating behavior and the evolutionary forces that shape mating strategies and sex roles during courtship and mating. I am interested in invertebrates and particularly insects as study systems.

The main objective of my dissertation research is to determine the role of mating signals in lineage divergence in the Chrysoperla carnea group, focusing on the western European species of C. carnea sensu stricto, C. pallida, C. agilis, C. lucasina and C. mediterranea. My goal is to explore the species boundaries between these species through quantitative investigation of reproductive isolation between species and sexual selection within species. I also aim to estimate the genetic architecture underlying song characters and preference for song characters.

Specifically, my research will address the following questions:

1. Do mating signals have a significant isolating effect between all five species, and how do male and female mating strategies overlap or differ at species boundaries?
2. Is there evidence for sexual selection based on volley period and duration within C. lucasina, is this preference geographically variable, and is there a difference in male vs. female preference?
3. How are song characters and preference for song characters inherited between hybrids and backcrosses of C. carnea and C. agilis, and what do the hybrid phenotypes tell us about the underlying genetic architecture of these features?

Education

Fieldwork in Switzerland and Slovenia in 2009

Graduate Institution
Doctoral Candidate Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Thesis Title: Species boundaries in European green lacewings of the Chrysoperla carnea group
Advisor: Charles S. Henry

Poster Presentations
Noh, S, CS Henry. 2006. Species boundaries: mating signals in two closely related green lacewings. Evolution, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), and the American Society of Naturalists (ASN)

Fellowships & Awards

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Grants-in-Aid of Research (2008)
University of Connecticut Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2008)
University of Connecticut Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History Student Research Award (2005-2008)
University of Connecticut Graduate School, Outstanding Scholar Fellow (2003-2006)
Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), Post Course Grant 04-3 (2004-2005)